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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An unusual thing about the city is that:
(a) Everybody has a garden.
(b) It is famous for its plants and animals.
(c) It has no native plants or animals.
(d) It has abundant water.

2. What does Dr. Rieux urge the committee to do?
(a) Start public health measures as if the disease is plague.
(b) Get rid of all rats.
(c) Avoid panicking the citizens.
(d) Inoculate the Prefect with anti-plague serum.

3. Who is Jean Tarrou?
(a) A railway worker.
(b) A man of independent means (comfortable income).
(c) A government official.
(d) A journalist.

4. How many people have contracted the disease and recovered?
(a) One.
(b) Forty.
(c) None. All have died.
(d) Everone has recovered.

5. What is one aspect of the plague that Dr Rieux considers?
(a) Its history.
(b) Its cure.
(c) Its treatment.
(d) Its future.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rieux treat the plague victims?

2. What action has Dr. Rieux already taken?

3. What is Rieux worried about?

4. With what does Rieux contrast pictures of the plague through history?

5. In what era is the story set?

(see the answer key)

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